Philosophers debate the death of philosophy as much as they
debate the death of God. Kant claimed responsibility for both
philosophy's beginning and end, while Heidegger argued it concluded
with Nietzsche. In the twentieth century, figures as diverse as
John Austin and Richard Rorty have proclaimed philosophy's end,
with some even calling for the advent of "postphilosophy." In an
effort to make sense of these conflicting positions--which often
say as much about the philosopher as his subject--Isabelle
Thomas-Fogiel undertakes the first systematic treatment of "the end
of philosophy," while also recasting the history of western thought
itself.
Thomas-Fogiel begins with postphilosophical claims such as
scientism, which she reveals to be self-refuting, for they subsume
philosophy into the branches of the natural sciences. She discovers
similar issues in Rorty's skepticism and strands of continental
thought. Revisiting the work of late-nineteenth and
early-twentieth-century philosophers, when the split between
analytical and continental philosophy began, Thomas-Fogiel finds
both traditions followed the same path--the road of
reference--which ultimately led to self-contradiction. This
phenomenon, whether valorized or condemned, has been understood as
the death of philosophy. Tracing this pattern from Quine to Rorty,
from Heidegger to Levinas and Habermas, Thomas-Fogiel reveals the
self-contradiction at the core of their claims while also carving
an alternative path through self-reference. Trained under the
French philosopher Bernard Bourgeois, she remakes philosophy in
exciting new ways for the twenty-first century.
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